Mel Y Chen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3589658 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mel Y Chen |
| PRENOMES | Mel Y |
| SOBRENOME | Chen |
| ASSINATURA | CHEN M Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 481 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
What's Racial About Matter
This essay features a roundtable conversation between scholars working at the intersections of race and matter. It takes a dialectical and conversational approach to embody the methods of its contents. It speaks to the paradox of contouring a field that presses upon subject/object divides, questions and theorizes the boundedness of a liberal human subject and situates its analysis by recognizing relational positionality and citational generosity …
Holes on Holes, What Is What
A ranging conversation between M. Murphy and Mel Y. Chen on birds, science, gender, chemicality, and the politics and means of knowing, held at the Queer and Trans Ecologies conference in March 2023. This conversation was hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study as part of the Queer and Trans* Ecologies Symposium at the University of Minnesota on March 23, 2023
Differential Being and Emergent Agitation
This chapter schematically addresses-first by focally considering, then by turning askew-the relationship between what I call "differential being" and the environment at large (virtual, social, physical) of the con temporary university that must be navigated as a part of the normative educational pro cess. In asking questions about the collective entity of the university, its institutionality, and the bodies-human, nonhuman, and inhuman-within it…
Work Will Not Save Us
Drawing together disability justice, Asian American studies, and feminist/ queer-of-color labor analysis, this collaboratively authored essay forwards an anti-work manifesto shaped by our lived experiences as sick, disabled and queer Asian American scholars laboring in the academic-industrial complex. This essay offers a two-part intervention: first, it aims to expand nascent conversations on disability politics and its relationship to racial cap…
Crip Genealogies
The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. They challenge the white, Western, and Northern rights-based genealogy of disability studies, showing how a single coherent narrative of the field is a mode of exclusion that relies on logics of whiteness and imperialism. The contributors examine how disability …
Broadband epistemologies
This recounting of early years of training in linguistics, queer theory and feminism around the time of the 1996 Berkeley Women and Language Conference examines the role of simultaneities and resonances in the formation of a critical, productive if still inchoate transdisciplinarity. Such a transdisciplinarity managed to thrive in and around institutional delimitations; it owed a great deal to the inevitability of tensions in the affective politi…
Feminisms in the Air
COVID-19 both is and isn’t the name of a virus; it is many histories, many bodies, many politics. It is also the name of differential bodily burdens, differential state resourcing, and differential state securitizations under terms that create bifurcations between care and murder. One of the core contributions of a feminist analysis has been the examination of what was often an implicitly racialized gendering of a purported division between publi…
Queer Inhumanisms
Queer Inhumanisms" from its outset sought to move away from the progressive-temporal and oppositional frames encoded in such terms as posthuman or anti-humanist, and thus also from its own ostensible novelty. Rather, its emphasis was on studying extant or nearby strands of what can be taken as queer inhumanist thought, the identification of which must not depend on either presentist or essentialist or otherwise narrow terms: this work has been th…
Agitation
This essay considers the possibilities of an embodied archive of political agitation through an expanded notion of gesture. It weaves a set of infrequently attested relations in productive comparison: the political gestures of resistance, the embodiment of disability, the expansion of medicalization and of discourses of security in a time of crisis, and racial gesture. After an introduction to the scope and contingencies of the various forms of “…
The Stuff of Slow Constitution’
In this paper I would like to bring into historical perspective the interrelation of several notions such as race and disability, which at the present moment seem to risk, especially in the fixing language of diversity, being institutionalised as orthogonal in nature to one another rather than co-constitutive. I bring these notions into historical clarity primarily through the early history of what is today known as Down Syndrome or Trisomy 21, b…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Unpacking intoxication, racialising disability
This article examines concepts whose strictly medical applications have only partly informed their widespread use and suggests that demonstrably shared logics motivate our thinking across domains in the interest of a politically just engagement. It considers exchanges between the culturally complex concepts of 'toxicity' and 'intoxication', assessing the racialised conditions of their animation in several geopolitically--and quite radically--dist…
The Reproduction in/of Disability and Environment
Has the Queer Ever Been Human
Asian American Speech, Civic Place, and Future Nondisabled Bodies
The essay explores the temporal and bodily politics of “Silent No More” slogans, asking in particular about the role of metaphor in the relation between vocality and citizenship
Animacies
Animating AnimacyRecently, after reaching a threshold of "recovery" from a chronic illness-an illness that has affected me not only physically, but spatially, familially, economically, and socially, and set me on a long road of thinking about the marriage of bodies and chemicals-I found myself deeply suspicious of my own reassuring statements to my anxious friends that I was feeling more alive again.Surely I had been no less alive when I was more…
Masked States and the "Screen" Between Security and Disability
I open with a typical poster from a hospital emergency room that advises on contingent measures taken to prevent spread of H1N1, showing calm, gently smiling eyes behind a biological secured around a blue surgical cap (fig. l). The poster reassures us - acknowledging that sight of a could be frightening - that masks, benevolently, not threateningly (you may see others ... it does not mean that someone has swine flu), protect everyone. Such evocat…
Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections
This essay suggests that thinking, and feeling, with toxicity invites a recounting of the affectivity and relationality-indeed the bonds-of queerness as it is presently theorized. Approaching toxicity in three different modes, I first consider how vulnerability, safety, immunity, threat, and toxicity itself are sexually and racially instantiated in the recent panic about lead content in Chinese-manufactured toys exported the United States. This a…
Everywhere Archives
Animals without genitals
How might one think about modes of trans-ness in conjunction with animality? “Trans-animality” can simultaneously refer to gender and species, while sexuality, geopolitics and race remain in full scope. This trans-generic thought piece invokes the theoretical lens of a Deleuzian “body without organs,” bringing into suggestive resonance several instances of cultural production from the last few decades of the twentieth century. Each discursive ins…
Animacies
Animating AnimacyRecently, after reaching a threshold of "recovery" from a chronic illness-an illness that has affected me not only physically, but spatially, familially, economically, and socially, and set me on a long road of thinking about the marriage of bodies and chemicals-I found myself deeply suspicious of my own reassuring statements to my anxious friends that I was feeling more alive again.Surely I had been no less alive when I was more…
Has the Queer Ever Been Human
Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections
This essay suggests that thinking, and feeling, with toxicity invites a recounting of the affectivity and relationality-indeed the bonds-of queerness as it is presently theorized. Approaching toxicity in three different modes, I first consider how vulnerability, safety, immunity, threat, and toxicity itself are sexually and racially instantiated in the recent panic about lead content in Chinese-manufactured toys exported the United States. This a…
Queer Inhumanisms
Queer Inhumanisms" from its outset sought to move away from the progressive-temporal and oppositional frames encoded in such terms as posthuman or anti-humanist, and thus also from its own ostensible novelty. Rather, its emphasis was on studying extant or nearby strands of what can be taken as queer inhumanist thought, the identification of which must not depend on either presentist or essentialist or otherwise narrow terms: this work has been th…
Unpacking intoxication, racialising disability
This article examines concepts whose strictly medical applications have only partly informed their widespread use and suggests that demonstrably shared logics motivate our thinking across domains in the interest of a politically just engagement. It considers exchanges between the culturally complex concepts of 'toxicity' and 'intoxication', assessing the racialised conditions of their animation in several geopolitically--and quite radically--dist…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Everywhere Archives
Agitation
This essay considers the possibilities of an embodied archive of political agitation through an expanded notion of gesture. It weaves a set of infrequently attested relations in productive comparison: the political gestures of resistance, the embodiment of disability, the expansion of medicalization and of discourses of security in a time of crisis, and racial gesture. After an introduction to the scope and contingencies of the various forms of “…
Feminisms in the Air
COVID-19 both is and isn’t the name of a virus; it is many histories, many bodies, many politics. It is also the name of differential bodily burdens, differential state resourcing, and differential state securitizations under terms that create bifurcations between care and murder. One of the core contributions of a feminist analysis has been the examination of what was often an implicitly racialized gendering of a purported division between publi…
The Stuff of Slow Constitution’
In this paper I would like to bring into historical perspective the interrelation of several notions such as race and disability, which at the present moment seem to risk, especially in the fixing language of diversity, being institutionalised as orthogonal in nature to one another rather than co-constitutive. I bring these notions into historical clarity primarily through the early history of what is today known as Down Syndrome or Trisomy 21, b…
Masked States and the "Screen" Between Security and Disability
I open with a typical poster from a hospital emergency room that advises on contingent measures taken to prevent spread of H1N1, showing calm, gently smiling eyes behind a biological secured around a blue surgical cap (fig. l). The poster reassures us - acknowledging that sight of a could be frightening - that masks, benevolently, not threateningly (you may see others ... it does not mean that someone has swine flu), protect everyone. Such evocat…
Broadband epistemologies
This recounting of early years of training in linguistics, queer theory and feminism around the time of the 1996 Berkeley Women and Language Conference examines the role of simultaneities and resonances in the formation of a critical, productive if still inchoate transdisciplinarity. Such a transdisciplinarity managed to thrive in and around institutional delimitations; it owed a great deal to the inevitability of tensions in the affective politi…
Asian American Speech, Civic Place, and Future Nondisabled Bodies
The essay explores the temporal and bodily politics of “Silent No More” slogans, asking in particular about the role of metaphor in the relation between vocality and citizenship
Everywhere Archives
Animals without genitals
How might one think about modes of trans-ness in conjunction with animality? “Trans-animality” can simultaneously refer to gender and species, while sexuality, geopolitics and race remain in full scope. This trans-generic thought piece invokes the theoretical lens of a Deleuzian “body without organs,” bringing into suggestive resonance several instances of cultural production from the last few decades of the twentieth century. Each discursive ins…
Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections
This essay suggests that thinking, and feeling, with toxicity invites a recounting of the affectivity and relationality-indeed the bonds-of queerness as it is presently theorized. Approaching toxicity in three different modes, I first consider how vulnerability, safety, immunity, threat, and toxicity itself are sexually and racially instantiated in the recent panic about lead content in Chinese-manufactured toys exported the United States. This a…
Animacies
Animating AnimacyRecently, after reaching a threshold of "recovery" from a chronic illness-an illness that has affected me not only physically, but spatially, familially, economically, and socially, and set me on a long road of thinking about the marriage of bodies and chemicals-I found myself deeply suspicious of my own reassuring statements to my anxious friends that I was feeling more alive again.Surely I had been no less alive when I was more…
Masked States and the "Screen" Between Security and Disability
I open with a typical poster from a hospital emergency room that advises on contingent measures taken to prevent spread of H1N1, showing calm, gently smiling eyes behind a biological secured around a blue surgical cap (fig. l). The poster reassures us - acknowledging that sight of a could be frightening - that masks, benevolently, not threateningly (you may see others ... it does not mean that someone has swine flu), protect everyone. Such evocat…
Asian American Speech, Civic Place, and Future Nondisabled Bodies
The essay explores the temporal and bodily politics of “Silent No More” slogans, asking in particular about the role of metaphor in the relation between vocality and citizenship
Unpacking intoxication, racialising disability
This article examines concepts whose strictly medical applications have only partly informed their widespread use and suggests that demonstrably shared logics motivate our thinking across domains in the interest of a politically just engagement. It considers exchanges between the culturally complex concepts of 'toxicity' and 'intoxication', assessing the racialised conditions of their animation in several geopolitically--and quite radically--dist…
The Reproduction in/of Disability and Environment
Has the Queer Ever Been Human
The Stuff of Slow Constitution’
In this paper I would like to bring into historical perspective the interrelation of several notions such as race and disability, which at the present moment seem to risk, especially in the fixing language of diversity, being institutionalised as orthogonal in nature to one another rather than co-constitutive. I bring these notions into historical clarity primarily through the early history of what is today known as Down Syndrome or Trisomy 21, b…
A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Recent philosophical tendencies of "Actor-Network Theory," "Object-Oriented Ontology," and "Speculative Realism" have profoundly challenged the centrality of subjectivity in the humanities, and many artists and curators, particularly in the UK, Germany, and the United States, appear deeply influenced by this shift from epistemology to ontology. October editors asked artists, historians, and philosophers invested in these projects-from Graham Harm…
Agitation
This essay considers the possibilities of an embodied archive of political agitation through an expanded notion of gesture. It weaves a set of infrequently attested relations in productive comparison: the political gestures of resistance, the embodiment of disability, the expansion of medicalization and of discourses of security in a time of crisis, and racial gesture. After an introduction to the scope and contingencies of the various forms of “…
Queer Inhumanisms
Queer Inhumanisms" from its outset sought to move away from the progressive-temporal and oppositional frames encoded in such terms as posthuman or anti-humanist, and thus also from its own ostensible novelty. Rather, its emphasis was on studying extant or nearby strands of what can be taken as queer inhumanist thought, the identification of which must not depend on either presentist or essentialist or otherwise narrow terms: this work has been th…
Broadband epistemologies
This recounting of early years of training in linguistics, queer theory and feminism around the time of the 1996 Berkeley Women and Language Conference examines the role of simultaneities and resonances in the formation of a critical, productive if still inchoate transdisciplinarity. Such a transdisciplinarity managed to thrive in and around institutional delimitations; it owed a great deal to the inevitability of tensions in the affective politi…
Feminisms in the Air
COVID-19 both is and isn’t the name of a virus; it is many histories, many bodies, many politics. It is also the name of differential bodily burdens, differential state resourcing, and differential state securitizations under terms that create bifurcations between care and murder. One of the core contributions of a feminist analysis has been the examination of what was often an implicitly racialized gendering of a purported division between publi…
Differential Being and Emergent Agitation
This chapter schematically addresses-first by focally considering, then by turning askew-the relationship between what I call "differential being" and the environment at large (virtual, social, physical) of the con temporary university that must be navigated as a part of the normative educational pro cess. In asking questions about the collective entity of the university, its institutionality, and the bodies-human, nonhuman, and inhuman-within it…
Work Will Not Save Us
Drawing together disability justice, Asian American studies, and feminist/ queer-of-color labor analysis, this collaboratively authored essay forwards an anti-work manifesto shaped by our lived experiences as sick, disabled and queer Asian American scholars laboring in the academic-industrial complex. This essay offers a two-part intervention: first, it aims to expand nascent conversations on disability politics and its relationship to racial cap…
Crip Genealogies
The contributors to Crip Genealogies reorient the field of disability studies by centering the work of transnational feminism, queer of color critique, and trans scholarship and activism. They challenge the white, Western, and Northern rights-based genealogy of disability studies, showing how a single coherent narrative of the field is a mode of exclusion that relies on logics of whiteness and imperialism. The contributors examine how disability …
Holes on Holes, What Is What
A ranging conversation between M. Murphy and Mel Y. Chen on birds, science, gender, chemicality, and the politics and means of knowing, held at the Queer and Trans Ecologies conference in March 2023. This conversation was hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study as part of the Queer and Trans* Ecologies Symposium at the University of Minnesota on March 23, 2023
What's Racial About Matter
This essay features a roundtable conversation between scholars working at the intersections of race and matter. It takes a dialectical and conversational approach to embody the methods of its contents. It speaks to the paradox of contouring a field that presses upon subject/object divides, questions and theorizes the boundedness of a liberal human subject and situates its analysis by recognizing relational positionality and citational generosity …
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